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for this Adam and Eve
A sin, rewarded
With fruits of heaven.
They are the perfect out castes,
on earth
spinning splendid
in pageantry show
of flesh and skin
and copulation,
invoking gods of sterility.
I
Yet,
Its carnival bout
and she is beautiful today
drenched in her night rains of red sea.
Droplets of rubies thrashing past
her cities of crimson silk goddesses.
She is
the ritual, the sword, the coitus,
the earth, the sky, the red mountains,
the lucky red seeds,
upon the holy yards and bed spreads.
Scarlet of the black magician,
The sindoor bath of the female god,
She gushes out the sacred cut.
The deluge between her legs.
Vol. II. Issue. III 303 September 2011